Winter 2012 Juried Exhibit
February 10 – March 10, 2012
Awards Reception: February 10, 2012, 6–10pm
Modest Fly Art Studio Gallery, 7578 Foothill Boulevard, Tujunga, California 91042 [google map]
Business Hours: Wednesday - Friday 11-6pm. Saturday 11-3pm. Sunday - Tuesday By Appointment Only
Our Winter 2012 Exhibit will be held at Modest Fly Art Studio Gallery in Tujunga, California. Our juror is noted Chilean mixed-media artist Guillermo Burt (his full bio appears on page 4 of the Prospectus). For questions about this exhibit, please contact CAA Exhibit Chair Lois Ramirez at 818-848-3502.
Exhibit opens: February 10, 2012
Reception: February 10, 2012
Exhibit closes: March 10, 2012
Artwork pick-up: March 12, 2012
Fall 2011 Exhibit
“Curious Cards”
Click here to view online slideshow. [Opened November 12, 2011]
Postcards have history and mystery. A collaged postcard is a curious combination of yesterdays and tomorrows, worked by the artist’s hand. View a slideshow of the winning and accepted entries for our Fall 2011 online exhibit. All artwork is collage/mixed media and measures 4" x 6" (or 6" x 4").
Juror of Selection and Awards: Leslie Caldera. For more than 35 years, Mr. Caldera has been making assemblage with a spiritual/poetic dimension. He is also well known for his mail art. His work has been shown in dozens of exhibits, and he has curated several others.
Multi-Media Exhibit
April 4 – July 15, 2011
Location: Encino Terrace Center, 15821 Ventura Boulevard, Encino 91436
Juror of Selection and Awards: Maria Kaltner, Encino Terrace Center property manager. Encino Terrace Center is a 420,000-square-foot office building in the Encino Ventura Blvd. business district.
Spring 2011 Juried Exhibit – “A Sense of Place”
Sunday, March 13 – Sunday, May 8, 2011
Reception and Awards: Sunday, March 13, 2011, 2–4 pm
Location: Finegood Gallery, Bernard Milken Jewish Community Center, 22622 Vanowen Street, West Hills, CA 91307
Congratulations to Nicki Newfield who won 1st Place for her collage “Focus” (pictured right).
Click here for images of all the winning entries
The Juror for this exhibit was C.W. Slade, whose collages have been featured in two books on altered art and collage techniques, In This House and In This Garden (Quarry Books). She is represented by Denyse McLean Gallery, Malibu and JM Von Graven Co., San Diego.
Fall 2010 Exhibit – “Opposites Attract”
September 22 – October 9, 2010
VIVA Art Center, Sherman Oaks, CA
Congratulations to Shigeko Katahira who won 1st Place for "I Found It Long Time Ago" (pictured right).
Images of the winning entries are posted on VIVA’s show page.
The Juror for this exhibit was Franklyn J. Liegel, our guest artist at the CAA October 8 2010 meeting. Liegel is a popular instructor at two well-known Los Angeles area art schools.
Spring 2010 Exhibit –“SNIPPETS, A Newsworthy Exhibit”
April 28 – May 15, 2010 –
VIVA Art Center, Sherman Oaks, CA
Collage Artists of America held their 2010 Spring exhibit at VIVA Art Center (CAA is one of the founding members of VIVA Art Center).
Congratulations to Ellen Grim who won 1st Place for her collage “Frida VIII” (pictured right).
Images of the winning entries are posted on VIVA’s show page.
The Juror for this exhibit was Roy Dowell, a New York-born, Los Angeles-based California artist. For the past 20 years, he has been the Chair (and founder) of the graduate department at the Otis College of Art, and is currently represented by Margo Leavin Gallery. (Bio PDF)
Fall 2009 Invitational Exhibit – “Reconstruction”
October 14 – 31, 2009
VIVA Art Center, Sherman Oaks, CA
“Reconstruction”, the Fall 2009 Juried show of Collage Artists of America, included members of CAA and other invited member groups of VIVA Art Center (Women Painters West, Valley Arists Guild, and Valley Watercolor Society, along with invited groups San Fernando Valley Art Club and Artist Co-op 7) are represented in the show.
Images of the winning entries are posted on VIVA's show page.
Photos from the Reception are posted on the CAA Reconstruction Facebook page.
Congratulations to Donna Geist Buch, who won 1st Place for “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” (pictured).
The Juror for this show was John Greco, Professor of Art, Santa Monica College. Primarily a printmaker, John has exhibited widely both here and abroad and is represented in many public and private collections. In judging a work of art he looks for inventiveness, craftsmanship, and harmonies in composition and design.
Spring 2009 – “E-COLLAGE-ICAL”
May 20 – June 6, 2009 – VIVA Art Center, Sherman Oaks, CA.
Award Winners
1st Place:
John Selleck, Man on Vacation (pictured)- 2nd Place: Darlene Mellein, Iris Thinks Her Color’s Red
- 3rd Place: Mathilde Lombard, Encroaching Darkness – Emerging Light
- 4th Place: Marjorie Sarnat, Ancient Secrets
- 5th Place: Rachelle Mark, Network
- Honorable Mentions:
Susanne Belcher, A Distant View;
Sophia Tise, The Grey Sea and the Long Black Land;
Crystal Michaelson, What Would Al Gore Do?
Our Juror of Selections and Awards was Katherine Chang Liu, NWS, renowned painter, teacher and curator.
More images are posted on VIVA’s exhibit page.
Photos from the Reception are posted on the CAA E-COLLAGE-ICAL Facebook page.
Winter 2008 Exhibit
November 19 – December 6, 2008 – VIVA Art Center, Sherman Oaks, CA
Award Winners
- 1st Place: Mary Guzman – "Among Good Company" (right)
- 2nd Place: Sandy Rooney – "Artful Woman"
- 3rd Place: Sandra Klein – "Her Own Worst Enemy"
- Cheap Joes Merchandise Award: Lorraine Strieby – "Angel Walking"
- Carter Sexton Merchandise Award: Sharon Brooks – “Marley's Nirvana"
Our Juror of Selections and Awards was Rosamond Felson, who has directed the Rosamond Felson Gallery in Santa Monica since 1967.
More images are posted on VIVA’s exhibit page.
Summer 2008 Exhibit
June 4–21, 2008 – VIVA Art Center
1st Place: Dallas Chase – “Surfer's Paradise”
Award Winners
- 1st Place: Dallas Chase
- 2nd Place: Marilyn Landau
- 3rd Place: Phyllis Doyon
- Merchandise Award: Lois Ramirez
- Continental Art Supplies Merchandise Award: Linda Carlson
- Continental Art Supplies Merchandise Award: Launa Romoff
The Juror of Selection and Awards was Anthony Askew, Professor of Art, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, CA.
More images are posted on VIVA’s exhibit page.
New Year Show 2008
January 2 – 24, 2008 – Creative Arts Center Gallery, Burbank, CA 91506
1st Place: Shari Beaubien – “A Place Called Home”
Click here for images of all the winning entries
Fall 2007 Exhibit
October 10 – 27, 2007 – VIVA Art Center, Sherman Oaks, CA
Award Winners
- 1st Place: Nancy Goodman Lawrence (pictured)
- 2nd Place: Jaami A-K Abdul-Samad
- 3rd Place: Dallas Chase
- Merwin Altfeld Memorial Award: Beverly Grossman
- Continental Art Supplies Award: Joan Foster
- Continental Art Supplies Award: J. Natasha Kostan
- Image-Ination Award: Lois Ramirez
Our Juror of Selections and Awards was Michael Zakian, Ph.D., Director of the Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA.
More images are posted on VIVA’s exhibit page.
Spring 2007 – “Mixing Materials and Personalities”
March 7 – 24, 2007 – VIVA Art Center, Sherman Oaks, CA
Award Winners
- 1st Place: Baby Smith (pictured)
- 2nd Place: Terri Balady
- 3rd Place: Norma Klein
- Ruth Sklar Continuing Award: Nancy Goodman Lawrence
- Merchandise Award: Nancy Roberts
Our Juror of Selections and Awards was Juror Franklyn Liegel, artist/educator at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA and Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA.
More images are posted on VIVA’s exhibit page.
Fall 2006 – “Ripped & Torn”
November 15 – December 2, 2006 – VIVA Art Center, Sherman Oaks, CA
Award Winners
- 1st Place: Mathilde Lombard (pictured)
- 2nd Place: Lorraine Strieby
- 3rd Place: Darlene Mellein
- Ruth Sklar Continuing Award: Susie Brown
- Merchandise Award: Ellen Grim
Our Juror of Selections and Awards was Kent Twitchell. Kent is one of America's foremost muralists and a Los Angeles artistic treasure. His work graces the walls and freeways of our city as well as other locations around the country.
More images are posted on VIVA’s exhibit page.
Juried Open 2006 Exhibit
March 1–25, 2006 – VIVA Art Center, Sherman Oaks, CA
Award Winners
- 1st Place: Barbara Baker McIntyre (pictured)
- 2nd Place: Diane Stovall
- 3rd Place: Cynthia Paige Aaron
- 4th Place: Eva Kolosvary Stupler
- 5th Place: Carolann Waterson
6th Place: Tom Kurthy - Honorary mentions: Rebecca Andrews, Susan Gesundheit, Katie Mason, Keith Ullrich
Our Juror of Selections and Awards was George Herms, whose work was exhibited in the group show The Art of Assemblage at MOMA and in Fifty California Artists at the Whitney, in New York.
More images are posted on VIVA’s exhibit page.
Fall 2005 Exhibit
September 2005 – VIVA Art Center, Sherman Oaks, CA
Award Winners
- 1st place: Martha Blanchard
- 2nd place: Chris Meyer
- 3rd place: Nancy Roberts
- Ruth Sklar Memorial Award: Carolann Watterson
- Merchandise award winners: Avinger Nelson, Delores Berg, John Selleck and Carole Gillan